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“Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?”

Quote by Carol Moseley Braun

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Carol Moseley Braun

Carol Moseley Braun is a notable figure in American politics, becoming the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Senate. Born on August 16, 1947, she has made substantial contributions to the political and civil rights landscape in the United States. more

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“One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.”

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